LUCADA: a valuable resource but there are questions it cannot answer
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LUCADA: a valuable resource but there are questions it cannot answer.
Rich and colleagues have recently provided information on lung cancer in England from the National Lung Cancer Audit database (LUCADA). The authors concluded that LUCADA accurately describes people in England with lung cancer and can be used to drive healthcare improvements. They found that the socioeconomic status of individual patients does not affect survival and has only limited impact on p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200922